BY AJANLEKOKO GBENGA OLADELE Niger announced on Thursday that it is to join a key UN water-sharing agreement with its Lake Chad neighbours in the increasingly drought-prone Sahel... Continue

AJANLEKOKO GBENGA OLADELE with agency report The environmental health and justice watchdog group, EcoWaste Coalition, has added its voice to the call to create a Global Green Chemicals and... Continue

  JESSE MARIA OLANIKE The German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched the Africa Election Fund, to strengthen democracy in Africa through innovative,... Continue

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was laid rest this morning, after over 60,000 people attended his funeral and paid their final respects to the former pontiff.   This was the first... Continue

Almost 200,000 people paid homage to former Pope Benedict XVI during his lying in state over the last three days, the Vatican says. His body has been sealed in... Continue

  TUNJI BALOGUN/North America Correspondent Two years later than planned, due to delays caused by the COVID pandemic, WWF welcomes the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Agreement, committing the world to... Continue